Peter Strieder (art historian)

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Peter Strieder (born July 4, 1913 in Leipzig ; † June 25, 2013 in Nuremberg ) was a German art historian who did research in particular on German panel painting of the late Middle Ages.

biography

Peter Strieder is the son of the economic historian Jakob Strieder . In 1920 his parents moved with him to Munich, where he graduated from the Maximiliansgymnasium in 1932 .

From 1932 to 1937 he studied in Munich and Frankfurt a. M. the subjects art history (with Wilhelm Pinder , then with Hans Jantzen ), classical archeology (with Ernst Langlotz and Ernst Buschor ) and historical auxiliary sciences (with Johannes Heckel ). In 1937 he received his doctorate in Munich with Hans Jantzen on the subject of the people on German panel paintings from the late Middle Ages . From 1937 to 1939 he was a volunteer at the following institutions in Munich: State Collection of Graphics , Bavarian State Painting Collections , and Bavarian National Museum . 1939–1940 he worked as a scholarship holder at the Württemberg State Office for Monument Preservation in Stuttgart. From May 1940 to September 1945 he was in military service (including 3 years in Burgundy ) and in captivity.

In November 1945 he became a curator at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . In October 1949 he moved to the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg . From 1953 to 1978 he was the chief museum director of the department for painting until 1800. He played a significant role in the reconstruction and redesign of the museum buildings.

Strieder lived with his wife Ruth Strieder in Nuremberg-Reichelsdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Her son is the politician Peter Strieder .

Since his student days, Strieder was an active member of the Catholic student association KSSt.V. Alemannia Munich in the KV .

Conceived exhibitions (selection)

  • Master around Albrecht Dürer . Exhibition Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum 1961
  • 1471 Albrecht Dürer 1971 . Exhibition for Dürer's 500th birthday, Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum 1971
  • Dürer's role model . Copper engravings and woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer as reflected in the European printmaking of the 16th century. Exhibition on the 450th anniversary of Albrecht Dürer's death, Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum 1978

Fonts (selection)

  • The people on German panel paintings from the end of the Middle Ages (= Munich Contributions to Art History 5). Munich 1939 (dissertation).
  • German painting of the Renaissance (two parts in one volume: German painting of the Dürer period , German painting after Dürer ), Langewiesche, Königstein i. Ts. 1966
  • Dürer , Milan 1976 (German edition Luxemburg 1977, other editions in English, French and Spanish)
  • (edited together with Hanna Härtie): Alfred Stange : Critical index of German panel paintings before Dürer, Vol. 3: Franken , Munich 1978
  • Albrecht Dürer. The Complete Works , The Great Masters of Painting, Berlin 1979 (Italian edition Milan 1980)
  • Dürer . With contributions by Gisela Goldberg, Joseph Harnest and Matthias Mende. Langewiesche, Königstein i. Ts. 1981/1982, English edition London (Frederick Muller) and New York (Abaris Books), French edition Paris (Albin Michel), Dutch edition Antwerp / Brussels (Mercatorfonds), Serbo-Croatian edition Belgrade (Jugoslovenska Revija), 1983 Japanese edition Tokyo (Chuokoransha).
  • Panel painting in Nuremberg 1350–1550 , Langewiesche, Königstein i. Ts. 1993
  • Albrecht Dürer: Adam and Eve. Theses on the client , in: Journal of the German Association for Art Science 63, 2009, pp. 215–224
  • Dürer . 3rd, revised and expanded edition 2012, supervised by Anna Scherbaum. With contributions by Georg Josef Dietz, Joseph Harnest , Bruno Heimberg and Anna Scherbaum. Langewiesche publishing house, Königstein i. Ts. 2012, ISBN 978-3-7845-9142-1

literature

  • Bibliography Peter Strieder , in: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums 1984, p. 92 ff.
  • Kurt Lochs : Peter Strieder on his 80th birthday , in: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums 1994, pp. 310–311.
  • Peter-Klaus Schuster : The violence in art . Lecture on the 85th birthday of Peter Strieder, in: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums 1999, pp. 227–233.
  • Kürschner's German Scholar's Calendar , Berlin a. a. 2003, pp. 3338-3339.
  • Daniel Hess : Peter Strieder in memory (with bibliography compiled by Anja Ebert). In: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums 2013, pp. 7–15.

Archival material

  • Extensive correspondence with colleagues and friends, 1950–1994 (gift from the scientist) in the historical archive of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum.

Remarks

  1. ↑ With 360,000 visitors the first major cultural event in the Federal Republic of Germany, with special merits in museum didactics , by the new generation of art historians on the XIII. Deutsche Kunsthistorikertag criticizes because of the "delusion context" produced by the exhibition as an "event of capital" and "hero cult": Gabriele Sprigath: On the exploitation of art history in imperialist mass culture using the example of the Dürer year , in: Kritischeberichte 1, Heft 1, 1973 , Pp. 51–52, quoted from Peter-Klaus Schuster , in Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums 1999, p. 229, note 6.
  2. ↑ "A strict exercise of comparative vision"; Peter-Klaus Schuster, in: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums 1999, p. 228.

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personal data
SURNAME Strieder, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 2013
Place of death Nuremberg